Yeah, I'm not buying the narrative that people hammering the downvote pool is the sole cause of the upvote pool being pilfered, because if true then there is a stalemate between post rewards increasing from downvotes and the voting pool decreasing because of downvotes. There's definitely something cooking, and I suppose we'll find out in time, but I'm fairly certain it has nothing to do with increased use of downvotes, that makes no sense.
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People are hammering the downvote pool? Can we confirm that? That would be a positive sign, if by that, you meant people were wasting downvotes in a form of protest.
Apparently people immediately went about hammering trending posts that had used upvote bots. I guess that's to be expected, but apparently one of the targets was a new user that decided to buy upvotes, which last I checked new users buying steem helps the ecosystem, but I guess after a couple years of rage that some have against bidbots it is to be expected. I don't like how they were implemented because they created a problem that they then solved for profit, but I wasn't involved in the supposed stampede.
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